Why The NAACP Shouldn’t Support Creflo Dollar

Following Creflo Dollar’s arrest earlier this month on charges that he’d assaulted his daughter, the embattled pastor addressed his congregation and publicly refuted his child’s claims. Stacey Patton writes in the Washington Post that disciplining children with physical punishment should not be something that the NAACP should condone or sweep under the rug.

This debate — over whether Dollar was appropriately disciplining his daughter or abusing her, and whether physical violence is needed to rear a child properly — is an old one in the black community. The fact that this debate is still happening shows what little progress black Americans have made in peacefully teaching their children right from wrong. For some, beating children is a legacy of having been abused for centuries by a racist society …